Salomon Klass
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Salomon Klass was a captain in the Finnish Army, a company commander and one of the three Finnish Jews who were nominated to be awarded the Iron Cross by Nazi Germany during World War II, all of whom
Salomon Klass in a captain's uniform
Dina Poljakoff
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Dina Poljakoff was a Finnish nurse. Despite being Jewish, she was offered the Iron Cross by Nazi Germany during World War II.
Salomon Klass
…Klass did this to avoid damaging good working relations with the Germans. The other two Finnish Jews awarded the Iron Cross, Major Leo Skurnik and nurse Dina Poljakoff, also refused the award. After his discharge from the army at the end of World War II, Klass emigrated to Sweden, where he was involved in the fur…
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